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premium plans right now when people are
deciding what age to have children ASP
you'll often hear them say that before
they have kids there are a lot of things
they want to get done first maybe travel
the world maybe concentrate on a career
or at least just wait until the 20s are
out of the way
on the flipside some people will tell
you that they want to have children at a
young age so that they can actively play
sports with their children when kids are
in their teens adding that they don't
want to be aging parents because they
fear they won't have the energy required
say in their 50s to be still dealing
with kids today we'll talk about all the
pros and cons in this episode of the
infographics show is it better to be
born to younger or older parents as we
just pointed out there are many reasons
why people choose to be younger or older
parents sometimes kids just happen of
course but often parenting is
meticulously planned so let's say you
were born to older parents what does
older mean well for women having a kid
over the age of 35 could said to qualify
the woman as being an older parent as
for men they keep on giving well into
old age but that doesn't mean they
should do that before we talk about the
kids we should say that science doesn't
seem to disagree that the longer a woman
waits there could be more birth
complications for her in the kid the US
National Institutes of Health tells us
that in older age women are more at risk
of having a stillbirth miscarriage or
ectopic pregnancy that means the baby
being in an abnormal position the woman
also has more chances of having high
blood pressure during her pregnancy
higher cholesterol developing diabetes
and according to the American Stroke
Association if women are over 40 after
getting pregnant they are more at risk
of having a stroke or a heart attack
there are more risks and they're well
documented it seems if a woman gives
birth at a later age perhaps 35 or 40
there is more chance of the baby being
born with Down syndrome we're also told
that there's a risk of other congenital
anomalies when women have kids at a
later age other studies tell us that
kids also have more of a chance of
developing neuropsychiatric disorders
such as autism or even schizophrenia
this all sounds grim but the American
Journal of Epidemiology said that this
has more to do with the health of the
woman
her lifestyle than it does with the age
alone many critics will tell you that
there's a bit of scare mongering going
on to compel women not to wait too long
now for some good news for all their
mothers as you can imagine having a
teenage parent might not always be the
best thing in the world often the woman
has not matured enough in life to be
enabled parent while there's always the
risk of the mother and perhaps the
father if he's too young to just not
being ready there's also money to
consider as a younger mother and father
might not be financially prepared to
have a child there are many other
benefits of having children at a later
age one Danish study that seems to be
cited a lot found that kids born to
older parents had fewer emotional and
behavioral problems than kids born to
younger parents but these were kids
studied at age 7 and 11 it seems at age
15 things levelled out it gets better
for older parents another study
undertaken in the UK and us found that
kids born to older mothers and fathers
on average had a higher IQ than kids
born to younger parents that study found
the kids had more success in education
especially when it came to subjects that
fall into the stem category meaning
science technology engineering and math
another study called the relationship
between maternal education and
children's academic outcomes found that
kids born to older parents have more
chance of developing good vocabularies
being able to articulate themselves
better which has nothing to do with
biology but the fact that often older
parents often have a richer vocabulary
and this is passed on to the kids in
fact as psychology today tells us older
parents are an average more educated
than younger parents whether formally or
informally and this affects how well the
kids do in school the kids of older
parents in general out shown kids in
education but you can add this to the
fact that in general the kids of older
parents spent more meaningful time with
their parents since those parents had
more time to give younger parents to
some extent are still either working
very hard or perhaps haven't grown up
enough to dedicate all their time to
their kids another bonus according to a
study in the menopause Journal anyway is
mothers who had their kids later in life
had more chance of living to a very old
age it seems because older mothers had
waited until the ideal time they were
able to take better care of themselves
prior to have
kids it didn't seem to affect how much
longer men live or at least the study
didn't mention that one doctor also
noted this does not mean women should
wait to have children at older ages in
order to improve their own chances of
living longer the advantages of being an
older parents are listed in many other
studies that Danish study we mentioned
also said that older parents are less
likely to lose their cool and start
shouting and screaming at their kids
which is good if you're an older parent
but also good for the child's well-being
a 2012 study published in the British
Medical Journal said that the young kids
they looked at born to older parents had
lots of advantages some of these were a
better body mass index advanced language
capabilities advanced social development
and these kids were even less likely to
be admitted to the hospital it seems
older parents were more adept than
younger parents are keeping their kids
away from actions that resulted in
injuries again there are lots of studies
out there that will tell you that older
parents have more risk of producing a
child that has birth defects physical or
psychological and this is solely related
to chromosomal abnormalities but as we
pointed out there seems to be lots of
benefits for the parent and child of the
parent is older we must also remember
that many other factors will affect the
child's development such as being born
with one or two parents and how
financially well-off the parents are not
all young kids are born to struggling
parents kids might be born to older
parents that leave them with a nanny all
the time and spoil them rotten at other
times which isn't necessarily good for
the child okay so now let's look at some
of the benefits of being a younger
parent for both parent and child
unfortunately there seems to be less
scientific research on this than there
is anecdotal reportage those benefits
include young parents not having to deal
with a tricky transition later in life
older parents might have gotten a little
bit too used to their lifestyle some
reports suggest that younger parents
might be able to relate better to their
kids they might understand their teenage
culture and so in times of difficulties
be able to offer more sound advice they
will likely still have a lot of energy
too which means being able to do more
things with their kids including dad's
going to the park and playing sports at
least with vigor but perhaps one of the
biggest reasons to have kids early in
life is to free up some time and later
age this is how one parent put it while
other parents who decided to have kids
later in life will be busy chasing
toddlers or
managing the mood swings of preteens
I'll be busy rekindling my dreams in
pursuing my passions and traveling there
might also be active grandparents around
who are still young enough to get in on
the act of bringing up the kids while
kids with older parents might miss out
on hanging out with the old folks
LiveScience cited the study involving
lots of parents although the study
conducted by the University of
California unfortunately only included
parents that had good incomes and were
white it wanted to know what the ideal
age to have kids was from that study it
was revealed that being an older parent
was better in various ways but the main
reason was that the parents seemed to be
more emotionally prepared for the task
of parenting older parents in general
had more freedom from work more money
and more time for the kids saying that
many women in the study also said that
they would have ideally had kids earlier
in life if they had the money they
basically didn't have kids at a young
age because they didn't feel financially
prepared moreover a third of the women
in the study and a quarter of the men
who all had kids late said they felt
they didn't have the right amount of
energy for their kids it's complicated
though and some studies suggest that
there's a sweet spot in age to have
children the US National Institutes of
Health wrote in 2012 we find that
offspring born to mothers younger than
age 25 for older than 35 have worse
outcomes with respect to mortality
self-rated health height obesity and the
number of diagnosed conditions than
those born to mothers aged 25 to 34
perhaps as we said younger mothers and
fathers might not be the best prepared
and perhaps if mothers are over 35 as
the study says there might be more
chance of birth defects related to what
it calls the mother's fecundity or lack
thereof there are so many studies out
there though and not all are equal you
may have seen the British tabloid
headline saying older dad's made uglier
kids if the dads were over 40 but if you
look closely at that studies hardly
science-based
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